"Leaving my fellow Athosians for a home here in Atlantis was a very difficult decision. I was their leader — for some, the only leader they'd ever known. And despite the fact that I was as close as a trip through the Stargate, there were moments when I felt I'd betrayed them. I sometimes still second-guess my decision. But then I remember that I can do more here to help my people and the rest of the humans in this galaxy than I ever could on my homeworld."

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She is the daughter of Tagan and Torren Emmagan. She lost both of them by a young age. Teyla has a rare ability to sense the Wraith, due to one of her ancestors having Wraith DNA spliced into their genetic makeup. Since this was discovered, she has been able to make contact with Wraith minds on occasion, with varying degrees of success. (ATL: "The Gift", "The Siege, Part 1", "Submersion")

When her team encountered the Wraith for the fifth time in nine missions, Dr.Elizabeth Weir concluded there must be a spy in the city. Weir set up new security protocols that restricted the movement of the Athosians despite her rejections that none of her people could be working for the Wraith. When Halling and several other Athosians were thinking of leaving Atlantis, she convinced them to stay as the investigation would only prove their innocence. During a Puddle Jumper exploration of Lantea, MajorJohn Sheppard and Lt.Aiden Ford discovered the mainland. When Halling wished to move to the mainland, she decided to stay in the city and was concerned for them. After the Athosians relocated to the mainland, she and her team traveled to an unnamed planet. While deciphering ruins, Sheppard sent her with Ford to find the inhabitants to help with the translation. While they were away the Wraith attacked the ruins. Cut off from the Stargate and abandoned by the rest of their team, Teyla and Ford were forced to fight their way to the gate. During the fight, Ford dove out of the way of a Wraith stunner blast and hit his head, knocking him unconscious. Teyla managed to drag him through the gate to safety. When they returned to Atlantis, Sgt.Bates accused her of working with the Wraith and had Dr.Rodney McKay search her belongings. He found the necklace that Sheppard had found in the Athosian caves and discovered it was a Wraith transmitter designed to detect Ancients. She the joined the rest of her team on an ambush to capture a Wraith on the same planet. They were successful and able to capture Steve. (ATL: "Suspicion")

On a mission to Hoff, she warned the Hoffans that if they used the Hoffan drug that the Wraith might wipe them out for being an inconvenience. When Steve was brought to Hoff in order to test the drug, she helped guard him. When half the people that received the drug fell ill, she assisted Dr.Carson Beckett in trying to treat them but most died including Perna. (ATL: "Poisoning the Well")

When the Atlantis expedition was running low on food, she brought her team to the Genii homeworld and introduced them to Tyrus and his daughter Sora Tyrus. After meeting with Cowen and coming to an agreement on trading C-4 and medical supplies for food, she and Lt.Aiden Ford stayed for the harvest ceremony while MajorJohn Sheppard and Dr.Rodney McKay returned to Atlantis to discuss the trade deal with Dr.Elizabeth Weir. When Sheppard and McKay returned and found a secret Underground Bunker, they were arrested by Tyrus and Sora and brought inside. She was surprised that the simple farmers turned out to be far more than they seemed. After a loose alliance was formed between the two, she and her team joined Cowen and Tyrus on a mission to a WraithHive ship. Once on the Hive, she and Tyrus stayed back to free cocooned humans while they download information to the Wraith data storage device. Once they were alone Tyrus stopped her from freeing anyone and killed a man asking for help. This alerted the Wraith to their presence and Tyrus was shot with a Wraith stunner. With the Wraith closing in she had no choice but to leave him and return to the Puddle Jumper. When they returned to the Genii homeworld and Cowen tried to double-cross them, she drew her weapon but was not forced to fire as Cowen surrendered when two Jumpers decloaked. (ATL: "Underground")

After the discovery of M5S-224's powerful atmosphere, she traveled to Earth with MajorJohn Sheppard to brief Stargate Command on the situation in the Pegasusgalaxy. After the briefing, Sheppard took her shopping and then to his apartment. When some of Sheppard's deceased friends began to arrive, he knew something was wrong and shot one of them to see if they were real. Fortunately, this was all an illusion created by the inhabitants of the planet and she never left Pegasus. (ATL: "Home")

During a trip to the mainland with MajorJohn Sheppard, they discovered a storm approaching Atlantis. She, with the assistance of Dr.Carson Beckett and Lt.Aiden Ford, evacuated the Athosians from the mainland. However, by the time the last of the hunters arrived at the Puddle Jumper, the storm was about to hit and Beckett insisted he lacked the skill to fly through it. Ford eventually persuaded Beckett during the eye, to return to Atlantis after learning that a Genii strike team infiltrated the city. After arriving back on Atlantis, she along with Beckett and Ford saved Sheppard from a Genii trap at the Naquadah generator. She was teamed up with Beckett to use a Jumper to distract the Genii in Stargate Operations but on the way to the Jumper bay Beckett was knocked out by Sora Tyrus, who wanted to be alone with Teyla, so she could avenge her father's death. The two battle each other with knives and hand to hand. After Teyla defeated Sora, they carried Beckett to safety in Stargate Operations. (ATL: "The Storm", "The Eye")

With three WraithHive ships on their way to Atlantis, she and MajorJohn Sheppard traveled to a planet in their path to do recon. They met with Orin a friend of her father and warned them of the approaching Wraith and told him and his family to meet them in the forest after dark. They headed into orbit and scanned the fleet as it exited hyperspace. They headed back to the Stargate as Sheppard felt there wasn't enough time to save anyone but were cut off when the Wraith dialed in. They headed to the spot she told Orin and waited for him. After a long wait a man named Arja and his family arrived and she uncloaked the Puddle Jumper. Eventually, Orin and his family arrived and they headed back to Atlantis. (ATL: "Letters from Pegasus")

Teyla dreaming of herself as a Wraith.

When she was having trouble sleeping, MajorJohn Sheppard asked Dr.Kate Heightmeyer to speak with her but she was not receptive at first but went to see her. Heightmeyer asked her about her ability to sense the Wraith which sparked her to visit Charin to find out way she had this ability. She told her about several people who were taken by the Wraith but returned to the village. After a short time, the returned began to hear voices and became violent. They were killed or forced out of the village. One that survived was her ancestor. She and her team traveled to the planet and discovered a Wraith Lab. They discovered a Wraith data storage device and brought it back to Atlantis. Dr.Elizabeth Weir was able to translate the Wraith language and discovered that the Wraith Scientist was splicing Wraith DNA into Humans and she has a small amount of Wraith DNA in her genetic makeup. She then tried to tap into the Wraith telepathic network and connected with a Wraith on the approaching Hive ship. When the Wraith began to feed on someone, Weir ordered Dr.Carson Beckett to pull her out. She insisted on going back in and was taken over by the Wraith and Beckett pulled her out. While under Wraith control, she gave the position of the Alpha Site and it was attacked. She wanted to back again because she was close to finding out the Wraith battle plan. Weir agreed and she was taken over again and had to be stunned by Sgt.Bates. When she awoke, she told them that the Wraith were coming to Atlantis to get to Earth. (ATL: "The Gift")

With three WraithHive ships heading to Atlantis, she assisted MajorJohn Sheppard in choosing a new Alpha Site. On a mission to M1M-316 she and her team encountered a Dinosaur like creature and had to evacuate. When the returned, Sgt.Bates accused her of disclosing information to the Wraith until Sheppard explained that it was not the Wraith that forced them to evacuate. She followed him in the hall and confronted him. When he said he felt she should not be allow to roam the city unescorted, she slugged him and Sheppard and Ford had to separate them. Later when Bates was attacked, she was questioned by Sheppard but denied her involvement. This was proven true when Dr.Carson Beckett found Wraith DNA on Bates' uniform. After the location of the Wraith was discovered, she was part of the second team to search for him. After Sheppard's team was stunned by the Wraith, her team double timed it to his position and stunned the Wraith before it could feed on Sheppard. Once the Wraith was in the Atlantis brig, she tried to enter his mind to find out what he had done to the city but the Wraith attack her mind and caused her great pain. Sheppard was forced to shoot the Wraith to stop him. After the team of Marines from Earth arrived, ColonelDillon Everett visited her in the gym and told her to stay out of the way because of chance she might be taken over by the Wraith. After the defeat of the first wave of Wraith Darts, she sensed the presence of Wraith within the city and offered Everett her and several Athosians help in locating them. When the Wraith headed for one of the Naquadah generators, her team was able to cut them off and kill them. During the second wave, most of her team was stunned and her radio was damaged. She came upon Dr.Rodney McKay who was surrounded by two Wraith warriors. She killed them and escorted McKay to the ZPM room and they installed the Zero Point Module and raised Atlantis' shield. When twelve more Hives reached Atlantis, Sheppard and McKay came up with a plan to cloak the city. In order to stop the Wraith from firing on the shield, she connected with them and relayed their intention to destroy the city. The Wraith stopped firing and they faked a self-destruct by detonating a nuclear warhead above the shield and cloaked the city. (ATL: "The Siege, Part 1", "The Siege, Part 2", "The Siege, Part 3")

After the siege, the senior staff of Atlantis returned to Earth though the Stargate. She was left in charge while they were gone. She kept in touch with several of her offworld contacts but there was no sign of Lt.Aiden Ford. (ATL: "The Intruder")

During Ronon Dex's first mission as part of Lt. ColonelJohn Sheppard's team, the team landed their Puddle Jumper on the penal island on the planet Olesia. When the prisoners attacked, Ronon was shot in the ankle with an arrow. Fortunately, the Poros came and drove the prisoners back allowing the team to retreat to the Jumper. They were then lead to the city and greeted by the Magistrate. On their way back to the Stargate, their Jumper was shot down by the prisoners. They are captured and restrained by the leader Torrell. Eldon, the prisoner who designed the explosives and was assigned by Torrell to help Dr.Rodney McKay fix the Jumper, offered to free them if they take him with them. On the way to the Jumper, a Wraith Dart came through the gate. This forced the prisoners to abandon the Jumper and go into hiding. The team is then able to retake the Jumper and McKay works on the Dial Home Device. Unfortunately, the prisoners returned and attacked. She, Sheppard and Ronon attempted to fight them off but were overrun. Torrell tries to force them to take the prisoners with them at gunpoint but Sheppard refuses. Suddenly, a Wraith cruiser approaches and McKay attempts to dial the gate but the power has cut out. Sheppard has him divert power to the Drone weapons and fires at the cruiser. Dr.Elizabeth Weir radios from a cloaked Jumper that the cruiser is damaged but two more are closing in. Sheppard tells her to dial one of the backup planets to the Alpha Site and the prisoners escape. She then dials Atlantis and the team along with Eldon escape the planet. (ATL: "Condemned")

On a mission to Doranda the team discovers an Ancientoutpost. While Dr.Rodney McKay and Lt. ColonelJohn Sheppard worked on the outpost to prefect Project Arcturus, she and Ronon Dex embark on a trading mission to Belkan. Once there, Ronon learned that a fellow Satedan had survived the destruction of Sateda. They track down the man and it turns out to be his former regiment mate Solen Sincha. He tells him that 300 more Satedans managed to make it to the shelters west of the capital, and later moved to other planets like Belkan and Manaria. He also informs him that Kell, Ronon's Task Master during his military training, was among the survivors. Soon after, when Kell came to Belkan to trade, Ronon had Teyla set up a meeting and shot him on sight. In his own words, "Kell commanded several infantry divisions on Sateda. When the Wraith came, he ordered thousands to their death just to save himself. He was... he was a traitor and a coward. My only regret is that his death was quick." Teyla understood his motivation but warned him the others would not approve and they agreed to keep it between the two of them. (ATL: "Trinity")

On a mission to an unnamed planet, she learned that the villagers were being terrorized by what they call the Daimos. Their description of it is very similar to that of a Wraith. Ronon Dex offered his help in killing it but Lt. ColonelJohn Sheppard orders him to wait until morning and the whole team would go. The next day, Ronon successfully tracks a female Wraith into a cave. The team chases her inside but she hides behind a man named Zaddik. Zaddik explains that her name is Ellia and she does not feed because of a serum he created. She helped Ellia use her telepathic abilities to locate the adult Wraith that was killing the villagers. She, Sheppard and Ronon left to kill it. When Ellia took Dr.Carson Beckett's retrovirus and transformed into a creature closer to that of an Iratus bug, she was knocked unconscious and Sheppard and Ronon were forced to kill her but not before she feed on Sheppard's arm. Back on Atlantis, Beckett discovers that he was infected by the retrovirus and began to change into a creature like Ellia. When Sheppard escaped from his quarters, she helped track him down and Ronon stunned him with his Particle magnum. Beckett came up with a plan to use Iratus bug embryonic stem sells to replace Sheppard's mutating cells. She and the team traveled to a planet with Iratus bugs but they were unable to get close enough to get any eggs without the bugs attacking. Beckett then realized that Sheppard was producing pheromones and could enter the cave unharmed. Sheppard succeeded in gathering the eggs and Beckett developed a cure. (ATL: "Instinct", "Conversion")

She and the team were taken by Lt.Aiden Ford's Coalition, to formulate a plan to destroy a WraithHive ship. She, Ronon Dex and Dr.Rodney McKay were dosed with the Wraith enzyme. Lt. ColonelJohn Sheppardbeamed everyone into the Wraith Dart and headed through the Stargate. While approaching the Hive the Dart went on Autopilot and forced Sheppard to unload his cargo blind. Most of Ford's men were beamed off a ledge. Believing Sheppard did it on purpose, Ford turned off his radio against Teyla's wishes. When Sheppard landed the alarms sounded and they were captured as was Sheppard. Once in a cell the group managed to escape by using his knives to hit the door controls but they were quickly captured. The Wraith separated the team this time and put Teyla in a cell with Ronon and Kanayo. While in the cell, Kanayo began to experience withdrawal and died. After Ford escaped and saved Sheppard from the Wraith Queen, Sheppard freed them and beamed them into a Dart. After firing on the other Hive and forcing them to fight, Sheppard headed for the Spacegate and traveled to an uninhabited planet to release her and Ronon. They then headed back to Atlantis. (ATL: "The Lost Boys", "The Hive")

After her team discovered two stasis pods in orbit in the Kohal system and the inhabitants consciousness were transferred into Dr.Elizabeth Weir and Lt. ColonelJohn Sheppard, they began to fight each other. She and Ronon Dex went to search for them but were evaded by Phoebus, the consciousness in Weir, and Ronon decided to search for Thalan, the consciousness in Sheppard, because he knows how he thinks but doesn't have a clue how she thinks. She cornered Phoebus but was stunned by Thalan with Ronon's Particle magnum. When she awoke, Phoebus had locked down the city and trapped her in the same section as Thalan. She was able to locate him and shot him with a Wraith handblaster. Phoebus demanded she bring him to a security camera and kill him or she would use Halon gas to kill the cities population. She did as instructed but was stopped from killing him after Dr.Rodney McKay regained control of the city. Phoebus entered the room and held her at gunpoint. She was able to give Thalan the stunner and he shot Phoebus. MajorEvan Lorne entered the room and she instructed him to keep both of them bound until Dr.Carson Beckett cleared them. (ATL: "The Long Goodbye")

When the supervolcano on Taranis was about to erupt and the Stargate fell into the lava, he assisted people to the Daedalusbeam out locations and to the Ancient ship Orion. She and Ronon Dex were cut off from the Orion while waiting for the last family. They began to suffocate from the ash but were beamed to Daedalus on its return. (ATL: "Inferno")

A few weeks later, Michael Kenmore brought a Hive ship to Atlantis, so that they can use Dr.Carson Beckett's retrovirus to spread amongst their rival Wraith factions, and an alliance was formed despite her objection. After the Hive and the Daedalus left to test the retrovirus, Zelenka informed Dr.Elizabeth Weir that the information the Wraith transmitted contained a computer virus that accessed the Aurora mission reports and the location of all the planets in their database. After the two Hives attacked the Daedalus and Lt. ColonelJohn Sheppard, Dr.Rodney McKay and Ronon Dex went missing, Weir ordered the Daedalus and Orion to pursue and intercept them before they reached Earth. When Major GeneralHenry Landry ordered Weir to return to Earth, she was left in command of Atlantis. After a Hive ship was detected heading towards the planet, she prepared the cities defenses but they were contacted by Sheppard aboard the Hive. She was able to pilot the Hive to M8G-352 and transferred the Human-form Wraith to the planet. After they left Beckett and a team there and returned to Atlantis, a Hive was detected heading towards M8G-352. She again piloted the Hive to M8G-352 and rescued Beckett and fired on the camp of Wraith. When the second Hive arrived, she and her team escaped on a Puddle Jumper and were rescued by the Daedalus. (ATL: "Allies", "No Man's Land", "Misbegotten")

On a mission to an unnamed planet, she and her team were attacked by the villagers. They headed back to the Stargate but everyone but Dr.Rodney McKay were shot with tranquilizer darts. Fortunately, McKay was able to return to Atlantis after being shot in the glute by an arrow. She and the team woke up in a cage and Ronon Dex remembered having come to his planet as a Runner. Having stayed on this planet for too long caused the Wraith to attack it. The leader of the village, Keturah, was led to believe that the Wraith would no longer cull them in return for Ronon. Ronon grabbed a knife and threatened to kill himself if they didn't release his friends. Ketutah complied and released her and Lt. ColonelJohn Sheppard. They returned to Atlantis and were greeted by MajorElliot Rutherford, who was preparing to mount a rescue mission. They grabbed weapons and headed back to the planet but it had already been culled. They returned to Atlantis and McKay was able to adjust the Long range sensors to find the location of the Wraith tracker on Ronon's homeworld Sateda. They traveled to Sateda on the Daedalus and found Ronon in an abandoned hospital. Ronon refused to leave without killing the Wraith Leader. She and Sheppard, with the help of McKay and Dr.Carson Beckett, helped him fight off more of the Wraith hunting party, with Ronon leading the charge. Eventually, the entire Wraith hunting party composed of at least twenty-five individuals was wiped out. Ronon's wish was granted when the Wraith Leader came down to the planet's surface to fight Ronon one-on-one. Ronon was almost defeated until the timely intervention of Beckett and a Drone weapon. (Beckett had enough of seeing Ronon go through that and killed the Wraith saying "if he doesn't like it he can shoot me".) Beckett killed the Wraith, saving a grateful Ronon and they returned to Atlantis. (ATL: "Sateda")

When MajorLeonard's team went missing on M1B-129, she and her team were sent in to search for them. After finding the bodies of several of the team as well as several Genii, they found a Wraithdevice. They headed back to the Stargate but Leonard used C-4 to blow up the Dial Home Device and then shot at them from the tree line. With the DHD destroyed they headed back to the Wraith device so Dr.Rodney McKay could shut it down. Once there the device began to effect everyone else but her because of her Wraith DNA. When Ronon Dex began to hallucinate, she and Lt. ColonelJohn Sheppard chased him through the forest and she was shot in the leg by Leonard. Sheppard was able to find Leonard's camp and patch her wound but he to began to hallucinate. She was able to convince him to take her inside the cave and she deactivated the Wraith device. (ATL: "Phantoms")

On the mandatory rest day, she was returning from the Atlantis gym with Dr.Harriet Hewston when Hewston exploded. She was hit in the side by a piece of shrapnel and rushed to surgery. Dr.Carson Beckett was able to repair the damage rather easily. After Beckett was killed in an explosion, she was present at his funeral despite her injuries as a testament to him. (ATL: "Sunday")

After Dr.Rodney McKay discovered a GeothermalMobile drilling platform, she and her team along with a group of scientists traveled by Puddle Jumper to the ocean floor. Once on station, she began to sense a Wraith presence. She reached out with her mind but found nothing. While McKay and the scientists worked in the control room she paired with Ronon Dex and Lt. ColonelJohn Sheppard paired with Dr.Elizabeth Weir to search the station. Once she was alone with Ronon, she attacked him and knocked him unconscious. She used a control panel to shut down power in sections of the city and raised several forcefields in the corridors. She was found by Sheppard, Weir, Ronon and McKay disorientated with no memory of attacking Ronon or shutting down power throughout the station. She revealed that there was a Wraith Queen and it took control of her. After Sheppard and Ronon captured the Queen, she entered her mind and discovered the self-destruct on the Wraith cruiser she came from had been activated. Later, she was able to convince her that McKay fixed the cruiser and tricked her into disabling the self-destruct before Sheppard killed her. (ATL: "Submersion")

After Dr.Elizabeth Weir disappeared and ColonelSamantha Carter was appointed Atlantis commander, Teyla took Dr.Jennifer Keller to New Athos for routine inoculations, only to discover that the Athosians were missing. After the offworld medical check, Keller discovered that Teyla was pregnant. A famed seer named Davos soon visited Atlantis. He privately told her that he was aware of her pregnancy and that the Athosians were alive, but he did not know where they were. (ATL: "Missing", "The Seer")

She was later led into a trap by Michael Kenmore and was captured. She learns that he was the one who kidnapped her people and turned many of them into Hybrids. He planned to use her baby to complete his research into creating the Hybrids. She was later rescued by the clone of Dr.Carson Beckett (who she was shocked to see), but was quickly recaptured by Michael and taken away. (ATL: "The Kindred, Part 1", "The Kindred, Part 2")

When the team attempted to convince Todd to get the Wraith of his alliance to take Dr.Jennifer Keller's gene therapy to lose their need to feed on humans, Teyla was transformed into a Wraith Queen in order to negotiate with the Primary and underwent lessons from Todd on how to act before the meeting. On the Primary's hive ship, Teyla and Todd are shocked when the Wraith Commander takes the ship to hyperspace rather than remaining near Todd's hive. Rather than negotiate with the Primary as Teyla expected, Todd murders her and frames Teyla so she can take control over the alliance. Teyla is forced to deal with the suspicions of the Commander while waiting in a Nebula for Todd's ship to catch up with them. After learning of a rival Hive ship attempting to cull a planet in her alliance's territory, Teyla takes her ship to the planet and orders the rival Hive destroyed against Todd's wishes, leading to the Battle of the Wraith Alliance. Teyla orders the Wraith Darts to be launched and employs tactics aimed at killing as many Wraith as possible on both sides in the battle. Teyla's Hive nearly loses the battle until the rest of the team arrive through the Stargate in a Puddle Jumper and damage the rival Hive with a Drone weapon, allowing Teyla's ship to destroy it. The team is captured trying to reach Teyla and she visits them to tell them not to escape and that everything will be alright. However, this is witnessed by the Commander who attacks and nearly kills her before Todd stuns and kills him. With the Commander dead, Teyla solidifies her position as leader of the alliance and leaves the ship with the excuse that she is returning to Todd's ship as it was her original ship, but warns Todd that if he betrays his word, she will make a reappearance to remove him permanently. The rest of the team is transferred to Todd's ship and they return to Atlantis where Teyla is returned to normal. (ATL: "The Queen")

Atlantis is invaded by Michael Kenmore who once again wants Torren and despite planning to kill everyone else with the self-destruct, he offers to take Teyla with him so she can live. She refuses his offer and later escapes with Torren. Ultimately Teyla murdered Michael by kicking his hands off of a ledge at the top of Atlantis's Control Tower, but said that in spite of his death, another will take his place as a threat to them. (ATL: "The Prodigal")

In another alternate timeline created when Lt. ColonelJohn Sheppard was accidentally sent 48,000 years into the future, he learned that Teyla had given birth to her child, but was killed by Michael Kenmore, whilst the baby was used to perfect the Hybrids. (ATL: "The Last Man")

Teyla has a good friendship with all of the members of her team, Lt. ColonelJohn Sheppard in particular. When the expedition first made contact with her people, she did not like ColonelMarshall Sumner as she sensed that he did not respect her but got along well with Sheppard. The two became friends and she joined his team. Teyla trained him in Bantos fighting at his request. The two have a bond as both friends and warriors, and Teyla even named her son after him. (ATL: "Rising", "Hot Zone", "Search and Rescue")

With Ronon Dex she has a bond of friendship as well as that of two warriors. Also she and he have a bond as the two ‘aliens' of the team, as they are not from Earth like everyone else.

With Dr.Rodney McKay she has a bond of friendship although she grows frustrated with him at times. They have somewhat of a special bond, however, as he delivered her baby for her on Michael's cruiser and he was technically the first one to hold her son. (ATL: "Search and Rescue")

Although not an original member of the expedition, Teyla has earned a great deal of trust from the rest of the expedition, to the point that, unofficially, she is fourth in line of command of the city, after Sheppard and McKay. Both Dr.Elizabeth Weir and John Sheppard have entrusted her with leadership of Atlantis as a whole when they were absent during their first return to Earth (The Intruder), Weir's recall by the IOA (No Man's Land), the ZPM heist of Asuras (Lifeline) and the mission to destroy the Attero device (The Lost Tribe). (ATL: "The Intruder", "The Lost Tribe")

Teyla is a part of the team that captures the Wraith later come to be known as Michael Kenmore for experimentation. After he's transformed into a human, he feels a connection with Teyla so she becomes friends with him. Michael ultimately learns of the truth about himself and forces Teyla to help him escape and nearly feeds on her until she's saved by Lt. ColonelJohn Sheppard and Ronon Dex. (ATL: "Michael")

Later, when Michael returns during the failed alliance, he admits that while he was going to feed on her, it wasn't anything personal just his instincts. Michael approaches her after being recaptured to try to get the team to let him go free to find his own way, but is refused. After encountering Michael again, he nearly lets Teyla get fed on by an Iratus bug as part of an experiment, but she is saved by Ronon. She admits she feels bad for Michael. She knows he's too dangerous, but feels sympathy for him as it is their fault that he ended up like he did. (ATL: "Allies", "Misbegotten", "Vengeance")

After she gets pregnant by Kanaan, Michael kidnaps her people and she swears vengeance on the person responsible, not aware that it is him. The two share some kind of connection, as revealed by Michael as he's able to reach across 10,000 light years and enter her mind to trick her with visions of Kanaan in order to kidnap her in order to get his hands on her baby. Teyla is also able to sense when he's worried. While Teyla was his prisoner, Michael doesn't harm her and when she inquires of her fate once her baby is born, Michael is hesitant to tell her, indicating he still does care about her somewhat from their brief time as friends. When she calls him insane, Michael is actually hurt by it indicating her opinion of him actually matters to him. (ATL: "The Kindred, Part 1", "The Kindred, Part 2")

After her rescue, Michael comes after her again for her baby, but he offers to take her with him as he doesn't want her to die as he still does care about her somewhat. She refuses and escapes with Ronon's help. She considers his offer when he promises to spare her friends, but after exposing that promise as false, refuses. Teyla joins the final fight against him at the top of Atlantis' Control Tower and knocks him off the balcony. Michael is left at her mercy, but instead of saving him, she kicks his hands off the ledge, sending him falling hundreds if not thousands of feet, finally killing him. (ATL: "Search and Rescue", "The Prodigal")

Teyla and Kanaan were friends since childhood, bonding over having the same Gift of sensing the Wraith presence. As adults that friendship developed into a full-blown romantic relationship and Teyla ended up pregnant by him although she was unaware of it until later. Ronon Dex was not surprised by this as he could tell by how Teyla talked about him that she was in love with him. Elizabeth Weir noticed this as well. After Kanaan and the other Athosians are kidnapped by Michael Kenmore, she vows to find them and after being kidnapped herself, is horrified to find that Kanaan has been transformed into one of Michael's Hybrids. At first he's too much under Michael's control to help her, but she manages to break through to him and he nearly releases her, but stops when Michael shows up. Kanaan, after being broken through to by Teyla, retains his old personality, but is reluctant to help her escape as he fears for their lives and that of their child. After Michael's cruiser is disabled by the Daedalus and Teyla is rescued by Lt. ColonelJohn Sheppard, Ronon and Dr.Rodney McKay, Kanaan helps them escape on a Wraith Dart and is later transformed by Dr.Jennifer Keller back into his human form. Kanaan moves in with Teyla for at least a time on Atlantis and supports her decision to rejoin Sheppard's team, taking care of their child while she's away on missions. (ATL: "Missing", "Search and Rescue", "The Seed")